Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Astronomers believe there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. But, this number of stars depends on various factors. To figure out how many stars are in the Milky Way, astronomers have to ...

The first stars in the universe formed out of pristine hydrogen and helium clouds, in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't find evidence of them today. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Massive stars do not live long. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe ...

"This gives us a new way to rule out certain black hole scenarios for dark matter." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New research ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...